The Julian Assange Rape Case

Fuck Yeah, Kristinn Hrafnsson: Kristinn's Response to DDB & the Wikileaks NDA

Sun, 22 May 2011 05:56:47 -0400

Fuck Yeah, Kristinn Hrafnsson: Kristinn's Response to DDB & the Wikileaks NDA:

A week or so ago David Allen Green posted a story about a “leaked” Confidentiality Agreement from Wikileaks. Much to our surprise, many people made a big deal about it. Since it was becoming a big deal, Daniel Dumshite-Berg decided to get on board in an attempt to extend his 15 minutes of fame…

Wikileaks releases Guantanamo files

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:39:15 -0400

It’s probably not a coincidence that Aftonbladet, the tabloid newspaper that is working with Wikileaks on the Guantanamo files in Sweden, prints that “Assange is a creep” article just a day before the Guantanamo files are released.

Meanwhile, other newsoutlets are, you know, giving us the news. In the BBC Canada article ” Wikileaks: Many at Guantanamo ‘not dangerous’” you’ll find a quick rundown on the files, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange in a bite-sized article.

The Guantanamo Files are here on the Wikileaks server : http://wikileaks.ch/gitmo/

"Assange is a creep" says Jan Guillou

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:23:39 -0400

The Tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet 2011-04-24

THE EGOIST Julian Assange puts a lot of money to free himself from allegations of rape – but he doesn’t lift a finger when Bradley Manning, Wikileaks claimed source, is tortured in arrest and is risking lifetime in jail, writes Jan Guillou.

Julian Assange - a little creep without principles

It’s embarrassing clear that Julian Assange, the frontman of Wikileaks, is not a male role model. To say it modestly. If he also is guilty to some kind of rape and sexual molestation, I can not comment. But his ardent supporters, who claim to know he is innocent, don’t know either.
The reason we don’t know, depends on Julian Assange himself, who refuses to come to Sweden for an interrogation. If he was so innocent as he and his followers claims, it would be an easy way to get the suspicions out of the way (and come to Sweden, my notation). Most people suspected of sexual crime in Sweden is actually free, depending on rather high standard of proof. (*)

Assange has launched a campaign against the Swedish legal system. He likens Sweden to Saudi Arabia and he means that innocent men are treated as if they were in an assembly line, and get convicted, because of the iron hard feminists who rule in this country. In addition, he speaks of a conspiracy that involves passing through Sweden on false rape allegations to have him extradited to U.S. There of course he would be tried very hard in retaliation for the disclosures Wikileaks has published.
Also for those who like myself for decades has devoted to criticize shortcomings in the Swedish judicial system seems legal reasoning from Assange and his circle, so absurd that they are not even worth taking seriously. Even more embarrassing is that well-known radical social critics such as John Pilger, Michael Moore and Tariq Ali seems to back up this campaign.

It is true that Wikileaks has published some very shocking revelations. Best known is the video footage showing American soldiers, under cheerful conversation, murdering a dozen civilians in Baghdad in 2007. It’s something so unusual as war crimes recorded by the war criminals themselves. You can understand the fact that the U.S. armed forces will find such a publication highly inappropriate. Or even treasonous.

And now we are really approaching a legal scandal far from Julian Assanges self-absorbed idiot campaign. The U.S. authorities have, since a year, alleged source captured, and expose him to harassment that goes over the limit towards torture. Bradley Manning, 23 years, kept naked in solitary confinement, prevented from sleeping and “inspected” (naked at attention) many times a day. He has not yet been tried, not clear why, but prosecutors have announced that they will be pressing for life imprisonment for some form of treason.

Bradley Manning ought to defend himself by saying that he helped to expose U.S. war crimes and that the high principles of democracy, therefore, excuse his leak of information. The U.S. armed forces shall not be able to conceal their crime to the principals, the American people. Something like that, the defense ought to be posted. Large legal principles against each other, and Bradley Manning is in need of the best lawyers to be found.
In the American legal system you are in dire need of money to defend yourself. This support Wikileaks has, despite promises, not given (given money to Mannings defense, my notation) Instead, Julian Assange stays with three english lawyers who is helping him not to come to Sweden for interrogation.

The story of Julian Assange is a legal scandal of large dimensions. Not because Julian Assange is suspected of sex crimes but that his source of those huge revelations risks life imprisonment and also is tortured during an incomprehensible pending for trial.

The story also contains a political martyr at the same level as Daniel Ellsberg, who in the 1970s, leaked information about the Vietnam War, was tried, got money collected to the first classical legal assistance - and was acquitted.
But the political martyr is certainly not Julian Assange, although he seriously puts it so. The victim is Bradley Manning. Julian Assange risk is at most a financial penalty, according to the allegations. His source, Bradley Manning, author of Assanges hero status, risks life imprisonment.

But that doesn’t seem to worry Assange himself or his cheerleading squad. For them, lawyers for Assange is more important than for Bradley Manning. Quite apart from his conviction in the rape story, one can safely say that Julian Assange is a small disgust without principles. Once again, putting it modestly.

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* This is in my opinion, a remarkable statement from Guillou. He himself, wrote an article in the same paper (Aftonbladet) just a few months ago ( 2010-10-10) about how innocent men gets judged by the Swedish courts. See “Billy butt utsatt för ett justitiemord”

“Hung in silence are most of the men, who are innocent, and sentenced for sexual crime. And they are many. The Chancellor of Justice pointed out in a report from 2006 (“wrong judgements”) a dozen judgements like that. And that was only about men who, against long odds, successfully managed to appeal the sentence and got acquittal.”

Now read Rixsteps acidic retort: Jan Guillou Comes Out of Retirement to Bark

It was discovered only a year or so ago that Jan Guillou had also been a spy for the Soviet Union. Unbelievably enough. He was simultaneously a spy for the Swedish security police and the social democratic party.

Jan Guillou writes occasionally even today, despite his ripe age. He comes out of retirement to answer questions about his recruitment by the KGB or to make a guest appearance in a smear documentary about Julian Assange where he can laugh at those charges against Assange (and the reaction of Assange and his legal team to them). Or where he can say nasty things about People Who Aren’t As Great As Jan Guillou™ such as John Pilger, Michael Moore, and Tariq Ali.

Here’s an interesting detail in it all: The author of the smear article (Jan Guillou), has a daughter (Ann-Linn Guillou), who is a Facebookfriend to the Police inspector Irmeli Krans, (the police who interrogated Sofia W., one of the two women accusing Assange for rape). The other woman, accusing Assange, Anna A. is also a friend of Irmeli Krans.

Small world.

Meanwhile, Peter Bratt, the not-as-famous as Guillou reporter who did all the hard work revealing the IB-affair without receiving any of the credit has posted this article on Newsmill.

Reporter legend: “Wikileaks has saved serious journalism”

It’s worth noting that writers do not get paid to write articles for Newsmill, instead they do it for free when a topic is close to their hearts.

Sweden accuses Wikileaks/Assange of not helping Bradley Manning

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:53:00 -0400

The new hobby in Sweden is for all journalists to propagate the flat out lie that Assange and Wikileaks doesn’t support Bradley Manning, the alleged WIkileaks leaker.

The Bradley Manning Support Network, which expressed frustration last month that it had not received the promised pledge, praised WikiLeaks’ contribution Thursday. ”This donation from WikiLeaks is vital to our efforts to ensure Bradley receives a fair, open trial,” wrote Mike Gogulski, the network’s founder, in a press release. — Wired - WikiLeaks Contributes $15,000 to Bradley Manning’s Defense

Wikileaks twitter account wears a “Free Bradley” twibbon, and contiously tweets information and resources about how to help Bradley Manning.

Here are a few recent examples:

UN torture investigator blocked access to Manning (interview) http://youtube.com/watch?v=pnqSy_DUwAw — Wikileaks Twitter

Tonight, New York East Village, Theatre 80, 7:30pm: Manning-Assange Resurrection Night http://is.gd/okfVTH — Wikileaks twitter

Useful: Bradley Manning organizing toolkit: http://www.bradleymanning.org/resources/organizing-kit — Wikileaks twitter

And so on. If you follow the Wikileaks twitter account you’ll see that Bradley Manning shows up almost daily.

Assange often brings up Bradley Manning’s plight when speaking at the frontline club, as well as when he is speaking to journalists who insist on asking him sordid details about the sexual crime allegations instead. The spotlight turned away from Bradley Manning is these journalists doing, and not anyone elses!

Here Assange explains how he and Wikileaks have to perform a delicate balancing act when supporting Bradley Manning - remember that if Wikileaks ever says “Yes, Bradley was our source” Manning hangs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fkK6CDIaoM

For another point of view, please read Bradley Manning.org and in particular “Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and Revolution Truth” written by Micaela Ward, from revolutiontruth.org

As I searched for more information, I became aware of the case of Pfc Bradley Manning, the accused, alleged, WikiLeaks whistleblower. He was initially charged with military violations and crimes related to the leaking of the Collateral Murder video, then accused of leaking the US Embassy cables, without charges being brought until a mere few weeks ago (Mar 2011), and has been held in solitary confinement for these past ten months, in violation of his Constitutional right to due process. The conditions under which he is being held constitute torture, under international law and precedential common and US law, and my govt is perpetrating this crime against one of its own citizens, to our shame, and against a miltary service member, no less, more to its own shame. Apparently, our Whistleblower Protection Act is not worth the paper it is written upon. We are all Bradley Manning.

Are the witnesses lying? Petra Ornstein says, the 20th of August...

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:02:46 -0400

Are the witnesses lying? Petra Ornstein says, the 20th of August 12:10 on her facebook page:

”men asså våldtog du henne? Really? Men det gjorde nog inget, hon ville ju tidigare, och du gör ju så mkt viktigare grejer. säkert. #mansförakt”

translated: “But uh, did you rape her? Really? It probably doesn’t matter, she wanted to earlier, and you’re doing so much more important stuff. I’m sure. #male contempt

What little bit of news could she be facebooking sarcastic comments about, the 20th of August, at noon?

Had she spoken to anyone involved in the case? You can find the entire police protocol translated over at Rixstep. Petra Ornstein’s statement is called Witness ‘A’, here. Lets see what she says in her police interrogation as a witness:

Anna rang A on Friday 20 August right after the other girl contacted Anna. Anna told her the other girl had told her she’d been raped by Julian. According to Anna, there were a number of similarities between their stories. What A primarily meant and what Anna told her was that Julian also had sex without a condom with the other girl. The other girl wanted sex (but with a condom) but Julian had seen to it they had sex without a condom against her wishes. Anna rang A and updated her because she herself hadn’t planned on filing a complaint against Julian but she wanted to support the other girl.

What does this mean? Lets translate it into actions. Sofia calls Anna. Anna calls Petra. Petra posts an ironic message on her facebook, which to the initiated labels Julian Assange a rapist… Four hours before either of the women have entered the police station.

In short, the story spun in several papers that “the women just wanted Julian to get an HIV test” is bullshit. They, and women close to them, called Julian Assange a rapist before they walked into Klara Police Station. They reported a man for rape.

“Rape of the less serious kind” is what the lawyer...

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:25:25 -0400

“Rape of the less serious kind” is what the lawyer calls it. (Male)jerk!

is Irmeli Krans status update. She’s likely read the news where Mark Stephens has stated things like:

We don’t even know what ‘sex by surprise’ even means, and they haven’t told us,” Stephens said, just hours after Sweden’s Supreme Court rejected Assange’s bid to prevent an arrest order from being issued against him on allegations of sex crimes.

As the case was all over the papers that day. Her facebok friends agree with her, all but one.

Imreli given your job though, I think that you should integrity enough to refrain from the status bar. I’m serious. Citizens must have confidence that the police are neutral, objective, without bias.

The man who protests is Harald Ullman, Vice Chairman of the City Police Board and owner of Ullman PR. Back in 1972 he was appointed ombudsman organization and personnel of the Social Democrats, and is still very active in the party.

Irmeli Krans would like Bodström to “come home and shut...

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:12:18 -0400

Irmeli Krans would like Bodström to “come home and shut down Flashback”. We’re flattered. Really we are. And thrilled to see a police officer wish for a lawyer/politician to shut down the last place in Sweden where one can actually engage in free speech.

Flashback isn’t hosted in Sweden, and for very good reason, they’ve tried shutting it down before. Who told Assange Sweden was a safe haven?

“Scandal!” exclaims the police officer Irmeli Krans...

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:04:00 -0400

“Scandal!” exclaims the police officer Irmeli Krans 15:43 the 25th of August. She’s likely heard the news on the radio that Eva Finné has dropped the case.

It’s interesting to note here, that she hasn’t finished writing the interrogation with miss Wilén yet. She was meant to finish that the 23rd of August but had taken a sickday. She returned to the station the 26th to complete the statement from Sofia Wilén.

From the news report:

Kvinnans advokat Claes Borgström är kritisk till åklagarens beslut och har begärt en prövning av beslutet. Den ska göras i morgon.

“The womans lawyer (note: singular) is critical to the prosecutors decision and has demanded a second look. That will be done tomorrow.”

at the bottom of this facebook conversation, Irmeli Krans says at 22.44 that she’s hopeful that Borgström will sort things out.

Irmeli Krans is a friend of Anna Ardin and at the time, the investigator of the case, also the person who interrogated Sofia Wilén. The statement from Wilén, Sofia was completed 2010-08-26 14:43 diarienr: 0201-K246314-10. A Day after Eva Finné had closed the case. The statement ends with these words:

Fredagen den 20 augusti 2010 höll jag förhör med målsägande Sofia Wilén i ärende 0201-K246314-10 på Klara närpolisstation. Förhöret påbörjades kl.16.21 och avslutades kl.18.40. Därefter skrevs förhöret in i wordprogrammet i Durtvå. Förhöret skulle renskrivas nästkommande tjänstgöringsdag, måndagen den 23 augusti 2010. Detta var inte möjligt då jag nekades tillgång till förhöret jag hållit. Efter diverse brevväxling fick jag direktivet av handläggare Mats Gehlin att istället skapa och signera ett nytt förhör i DurTvå vilket gjordes torsdagen den 26 augusti med behövliga ändringar. Tyvärr daterades och tidsangavs det dokumentet med rättelsens tidpunkt eftersom detta sker med automatik i DurTvås system.

Translation: Friday, August 20, 2010 I held hearings with victims Sofia Wilén Case 0201-K246314-10 on Clara neighborhood police station. The interrogation began and ended kl.16.21 kl.18.40. After the hearing provided in MS Word program in “Durtvå”. The interrogation would be transcripted the next workday, Monday 23 August 2010. This was not possible when I was denied access to the sattement. After some correspondence I received the directive by the administrators Mats Gehlin instead to create and sign a new hearing in DurTvå which was made on Thursday 26 August with the necessary modifications. I was dated and timestamped the document with the right time as this is done automatically in DurTvås systems.

It’s most likely that she was denied access because the case was actually closed (by the prosecutor) when she tried to “complete” it. Note the phrase “the necessary modifications”. What modifications? Also note that this statement in the 100 page “HäPM” is not signed or verbally approved by Sofia Wilén herself. Everyone elses statements are approved by the people who were questioned.

Why isn't the attempted blackmail noted?

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:28:00 -0500

The interrogations reveal that the women were blackmailing Assange.

Men då ringde jag honom och frågade, vad fan är det frågan om. Och då säger han att ja, vad heter det, hon vill att jag ska göra ett, ett blodprov. Så men fan gör det då liksom. Vad, vad är grejen. Så, nej men jag, jag kan göra ett blodprov men jag vill inte utpressas till att göra ett blodprov. Ehm… För de säger att de antingen går till polisen, eller, Sofia, att hon antingen går till polisen eller så gör jag ett blodprov”
page 46 Johann Wahlström

Above translated from Johann Wahlströms statement:

“But when I called him and asked, what the hell is going on? And when he says that yes, what is it called, she wants me to do a, a blood test. So? What the hell do it then. What, what is the big deal? So, he says no, but I, I can do a blood test but I would not be blackmailed into making a blood test. Ehm … For they’re say that they either go to the police, or, Sofia, she either goes to the police or I do a blood test “

“Och så går hon dit och följer med Sofia. Och vi ringer några gånger fram och tillbaka, vi SMS:ar varandra lite om det här. Och jag ringer också och tar kontakt med Julian några gånger, Eh, de vill att Julian ska ta ett HIV-prov, eh, annars så ska de anmäla honom. Det är så de uttrycker det.”
page 55 Donald Boström

Translated fromDonald Boströms interrogation:

“And so she goes there (to the police) and accompanies Sofia. And we are calling a few times back and forth, we text each other a bit about it here. And I also call and make contact with Julian a few times, uh, they want Julian to take an HIV test, uh, otherwise they will report him to the police. That’s how they express it.”

Two witnesses are clearly stating that the women were threatening Assange with the police if they didn’t get what they want. Textbook blackmail.

julian-assange-fanciers-guild: ASSANGE: “Well well… look what I...

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:19:33 -0500

julian-assange-fanciers-guild:

ASSANGE: “Well well… look what I just saw on lying on the ground?”

ROBINSON: “What?”

ASSANGE: “Dumbshite Berg’s credibility.”

Key facts the police files reveal.

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:09:00 -0500

With thanks to the people at flashback, as I don’t have time to translate today. You know who you are. Keep up the good work.

Anna Ardin and SW did not go to the closest police station. They chose a distant one, the Klara police station where her friend, gay police, active social democrat Irmeli Krans worked that very friday afternoon. AA and IK have a long history, of going to HBT-clubs together, and of work in the social democrat party.

The police station closes at 1600, but Irmeli Krans stays after closing hours. All formal papers are timed after 1600.

Irma Starts the interrogation, but before it is even finished, policewoman Linda Wassgren calls the prosecutor Maria Häljebo Kjellstrand and arranges the arrest (‘anhållan’, sweden has a silly terminology with several synonyms for arrest) of Julian Assange. Yes, the same prosecutor that confirmed the arrest to the press, and was replaced the next day by prosecutor Eva Finné who invalidated the arrest and even stated that the interrogation report showed that no crime had been committed. (notice: not the weaker that no crime could be proved. No, she states that the original interrogation report of SW shows that there WAS no crime described).

Yes, the original report that still seems to be lost or deleted. And never signed by SW! (the interrogation was never finished, but discontinued because SW’s distress on hearing about the arrest and rape charge towards JA made ‘her unable to concentrate’)

There were early rumors of an internal promemoria among the police protesting the rape charge. This protest was probably coming from Irma. Probably, and speculatively, the whole affair at this moment was grasped from the control of Anna Ardin and Irmeli Krans, and into the hands of policeman Mats Gehlin. Yes, the same Mats Gehlin that is leader of the investigations from now on, that continuously leaks material to the press, and makes public statements to the press where he critisizes prosecutor Eva Finné.

Yes, the same Mats Gehlin that orders Irma to write a new report of the above interrogation of SW.
( precise references to the original report https://www.flashback.org/sp28605042)

Speculation: Anna Ardin had very specific purposes by going with Sophia Wilén to the police. They involved a mixture of revenge, blackmail on Julian Assange and putting pressure on him to get STD tested. They used a clever tactic involving friends among the police and using a specific police station at closing hours on a friday. There was no intention of creating a huge public and international affair that would last months.

The whole affair exploded because other interests, with policeman Mattias Ghelin, at the center, almost immediately grasped control of the whole affair for their own purposes.

1. The police interview with Ms. W, the woman allegedly accusing Assange for rape, was not tape-recorded.

2. A narrative account of the interview was entered into the police computer system on the same day that it was made.

3. Days later, the police woman who had authored the account of the interview with Ms.W tried to access it again “to finish it”, but ”was denied access” for unclear reasons. She was then instructed by a superior to replace the original report with a new report of unclear origin, and did so. It is not known how the new account of the interview with Ms. W differed from the original account; only the new account is available now.

3b. The police woman did so (wrote a new report) under protest, which is proven by a dialog she has with her superior through a series of emails. She apparently thinks writing a new report is against procedure, and she gets detailed instructions on how to make (fake in my opinion) the new report. This policewoman was soon taken off the case.

4. According to the leaks, Ms. W had not heard and verified any one of the narrative accounts of the interview with her. The allegation in the EAW that Assange had sex with Ms. W while she was sleeping thus amounts to hearsay.

5. The police woman interviewing Ms. W is an acquaintance of the other accuser, Ms. A. They are both active social democrats and they are both engaged in activities for homosexual, bisexual and transsexual persons.

Fuck Yeah, Julian Assange: Full Swedish police report of accusations against Assange

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:00:29 -0500

Fuck Yeah, Julian Assange: Full Swedish police report of accusations against Assange:

julian-assange-fanciers-guild:

Guy Rundle of Crikey writes:

Among the details of the story:

Assange had been warned by journalist Johannes Wahlstrom that his flirtatious manner with women – which Wahlstrom had observed in the UK – would get him into trouble in Sweden, both because of its different s-xual character and…

Who is on Anna ardins list of “friends” in her...

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:02:00 -0500

Who is on Anna ardins list of “friends” in her blog?

Why yes, it’s the same police officer who handled the original testimony from the ladies who accused Assange for rape/molestation. Interesting.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KqxoRlB3Ub0J:annaardin.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/sjustegsmodell-for-laglig-hamnd/+Irmeli+Krans+ardin&cd=5&hl=sv&ct=clnk&gl=se&source=www.google.se

The interrogation files with AA & SW about Assange rape

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:29:00 -0500

https://acrobat.com/#d=YbOoEe4cEB8BQ6Hv*tPODg

Billy McCormac, Karl Rove and Fredrik Andersson. AKA Karl Rove and his Swedish henchmen.

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:57:00 -0500

Billy McCormac, Karl Rove and Fredrik Andersson. AKA Karl Rove and his Swedish henchmen.:

Icicle’s Diary has a few ideas about the Karl Rove connection. Click the headline to read their post.

julian-assange-fanciers-guild: “That’s right, fuckers. I can...

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:58:17 -0500

julian-assange-fanciers-guild:

“That’s right, fuckers. I can drink properly-poured pints again!”

The 15th of August Expressen published a note about Julians date

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:22:00 -0500

Julian Assanges Saturday in Stockholm Published 15 aug 2010 09:21 - Updated 15 aug 2010 09:37

The little “fact box” in this article is the interesting bit.

Julian Assanges lördag i Stockholm

08.00 Var med på Nyhetsmorgon på TV4. 10.00 Förberedde sig inför dagens seminarium. 10.30 Intervjuades av TT. 11.00 Höll seminarium och presskonferens. 15.00 Åt lunch på restaurang Bohem i Stockholm. 16.30 Gick på Naturhistoriska museet dit han blivit medbjuden av en kvinna som varit med på seminariet. 19.00 Gick på kräftskiva. Julian Assange om att flytta Wikileaks huvudkontor till Sverige.

Translated:

Julian Assanges Saturday in Stockholm

08.00 Was in the show “NewsMorning” (Nyhetsmorgon) at TV4 10.00 Prepared for the todays lecture 10.30 Was intervieed by TT. 11.00 Held a lecture and a press conference. 15.00 Had Lunch at restaurant Bhome in Stockholm 16.30 Went to the Natural History museum where he had been invited by a woman who has attended the seminar. 19.00 Went to a crayfish Party.

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In other words, the national tabloid knew that Julian Assange went to the museum with Sofia on Saturday, it follows that a least a dozen various other orgs, journalists etc knew as well. And the very next day, everyone who bought the newspaper knew.

Monday 23rd of August

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:33:00 -0500

On one of the pages in the police-report, Mats Gehlin (police officer) notes that woman #2 informs him that she has spoken to Claes Borgström and both women will soon pay him a visit. Claes Borgström was thus involved at that date.

Woman #2 is most likely Anna Ardin.

Dagens nyheter reports the following day, Tuesday the 24th of August, that Claes Borgström has been hired.

The "Prime" connection and the twitter campaign, part 2

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:00:48 -0500

A few more details about Prime, McCormac and that famous twitter campaign #prataomdet

“Traditionally, the Swedish media people (the few that use microblogging) used Jaiku but much thanks to an initiative by Billy McCormac (@ billym_timbro) at Timbro has, in recent weeks (January 2009), a large number of Swedish politicians and youth have taken up twittering”.
found here

The blog “The art and culture” created a manual for twittering written by Billy McCormac
http://markmedia.blogs.com/markmedia/2009/01/twitter-f%C3%B6r-journalister-och-andra.html

Just over six months later, the fall of 2009, Billy has a leading role in a major conference on twitter. The first European Congress on twitter: the disruptive media RealTime conference. ” see here

Before the conference he is interviewed by Annika Lidne, Managing Director of Disruptive Media.

Billy McCormack is lacking something in Swedish politics. He calls for a time/situation “… where people are really using social media and twitter to be primarily activists, to get people together for certain issues, to get them to act locally ….. to build tribes, Political Tribes .. . “.

The interview continues:

Annika: You are the guy that really know politics and social media in Sweden. You are going to head or moderate the panel on politics in the conference. “
Billy: A lot of Politicians and Political people got Involved into twitter last December and January (2008-2009)-when it exploded …
Annie: You were the guy that started that ….

Twitter conference took place in Stockholm on 20 October 2009.
http://www.disruptivemedia.se/dmc5
Billy McCormac lead a panel discussion that had the following theme: “Creating Dialogue or Ruining reputations - Politics in 140 characters.”

In another panel at the conference was “Mymlan”, Sofia Miriamsdotter, not sure how well these people know each other, but Billy also follows Sofia / Mymlan on bloggy. (So does Niklas Svensson the reporter who broke the Assange story at Expressen). http://mymlan.bloggy.se/followers

Mymlan will be a year later the central figure in the campaign on twitter # prataomdet:
Her blog post on the 20th December this year is all about #prataomdet and kickstarts its spread in blogs and the Swedish media.
http://samesamebutdifferent.se/2010/12/19/prataomdet/

“….on Wednesday a loose network began taking shape. Writers and editors tried to coordinate publication of articles on the topic of # prataomdet”

I was up half the night reading the texts, we contacted various newspapers and websites for the publication of texts and on Friday began calling reporters. Everyone wanted to write about # prataomdet …. We talked to the media and we continued to file on our own personal stories. We also began the translation of texts into English because # prataomdet attracted international interest, under the hashtag #talkaboutit.
I can honestly say that I am at the moment far too immersed and personally involved to view it objectively, or have any sensible analysis of what is happening. All I know is that it is huge.”

This twitter campaign is no longer limited to Sweden. Among other things, the newspaper “The Local. Swedish News in English” is spreading the story internationally, the day before Christmas Eve they published this which already in the preamble connects to the campaign to Assange trial.
http://www.thelocal.se/31036/20101223/

Since we have journalists and bloggers admitting that : “Writers and editors tried to coordinate themselves.” One wonders did Billy McCormac and Prime have a role in this? Or perhaps at an earlier stage? Or both?

Billy McCormac is clearly the central figure in Sweden when it comes to introducing twitter as a political means. He has Swedish politicians and political figures to start twittering and has met with several of them. He thinks strategically about twitter campaigns and is aware of its potential to destroy people’s reputation.

McCormac went from Timbro to Prime PR in August 11, 2010, he became a senior consultant and head of “public affairs” at Prime PR, he is Prime king of social media. He is Mr. Twitter Politics of Sweden.

With big thanks to trenterx

Julian Assange's Molestation Case: A WORLD CLASS SCOOP IS BORN

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:47:17 -0500

Julian Assange's Molestation Case: A WORLD CLASS SCOOP IS BORN:

(Original title: “Så föddes ett världsscoop”)

This article was originally published in Swedish on August 25 in the online edition of the Swedish magazine Resumé, owned by the Bonnier Group through Bonnier Tidskrifter. The Bonnier Group is a 200-year-old media company based in Stockholm, with…